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...exhibits will obviously impress different groups of people. And it is perhaps not entirely fair to compare two such different mediums from two such dissimilar cultures. Nevertheless it is interesting to consider the means by which an Eskimo and a Russian who emigrated to Paris in 1910 both manage to evoke the spirit of their milieus. The Arctic sculptures convey much of the vastness and harshness of life near the Poke and were carved almost instinctively. Chagall has depicted busy, crowded, complex European scenes and yet his inspiration seems likewise instinctual. Both collections illustrate folk traditions stretching back beyond memories...
Indeed, few academic theories have spread so fast and with so little hard proof. Apart from the Hamilton-Trivers work on altruism, there has been little to impress the skeptics, and no hard evidence has been presented to show that genes influence human cultural behavior. The power of sociobiology comes from its astonishing promise to link the physical sciences with the human sciences and to bring all behavior from Drosophila to Homo sapiens under one great discipline...
...classic exchange may not be the last word on human aggression, but sociobiologists would admire the insight into male psychology. In their view, male displays and bravado-from antlers in deer and feather ruffling in birds to chest thumping in apes and humans-evolved as a reproductive strategy to impress females. Machismo is biologically based and says in effect: "I have good genes, let me mate...
...concluded in a book, He Slew the Dreamer, that Ray had misled him. Huie decided that Ray had acted alone in killing King. But what had motivated Ray? Huie, who dug into much of Ray's life, contended he was just a small-time career crook determined to impress the big shots in his chosen profession by scoring one major...
...hackneyed dialogue and other familiar staples in Star Wars will impress itself on the moviegoer from the very beginning. Much of the national media has played up the Flash Gordon comic book angle in the last two weeks, at the expense of toning down some of the other classic themes and frameworks that Lucas weaves into the film's texture. In many ways, Star Wars can be approached as a competent Western set sometime in the quite distant future. Go down the checklist of a classic Western's ingredients, and few items will be missing in the Lucas recipe: bounty...